No person occupying any premises, and no person owning any unoccupied premises shall permit or maintain on any such premises any growth of noxious weeds; nor any growth of grass or other rank vegetation to a greater height than six inches on the average; nor any accumulation of dead weeds, grass or brush. “Noxious weeds” shall include Canada thistle (Circium arvense), dodders (any species of Cuscuta), mustards (charlock, black mustard and Indian mustard, species of Brassica or Sinapis), wild carrot (Daucu carota), bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), perennial sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis), hoary alyssum (Berteroa incana), ragweed (ambrosia elatior 1.), poison ivy (rhus toxicondendron) and poison sumac (toxicondendron vernix).
(1979 Code, § 9.41) (Ord. 223, passed 12-5-2023)